by FishbellykanakaDude » Fri Nov 09, 2018 9:29 pm
Memory. Or, rather, lack thereof.
One of the "guiding principles" of GD Theory is that Living Memory is the guiding "force" behind the dynamic system that powers the cycle of "over-reaction" that ends, regularly, in genocide and regret.
I, personally, have no "living memory/knowledge" easily available to me to convey the awfulness of massive economic chaos and what "starvation" actually means.
That doesn't mean that I don't BELIEVE that such awful conditions have existed and can in future exist, even for us "evolved and intelligent" present-day people,.. but the "emotion" of "experientially believing" such things is very difficult to personally experience without "Dad and Mom" emoting, as it were, their first person experience directly into one's head/heart.
And the words of wisdom are even less "potent" if they come from Gramps and Grammie.
So, Venezuela (could) seem to me to be shear unbelievable fantasy that I can safely disregard as happening only in a far off "unreal" place that has no relevance to me whatsoever.
That is what Venezuela is to those who disregard the now-non-living memory that their parents failed to pass down to them.
Apparently, there are "enough" of those people in Venezuela to have allowed Venezuela to become Venezuela at this time.
Perhaps, there was no "memory" at all in Venezuela of chaos and starvation? I doubt that, but perhaps it's true.
Why? The promise of "Free Stuff™" trumps non-living memory of atrocity.
The promise of socialism.
Memory. Or, rather, lack thereof.
One of the "guiding principles" of GD Theory is that Living Memory is the guiding "force" behind the dynamic system that powers the cycle of "over-reaction" that ends, regularly, in genocide and regret.
I, personally, have no "living memory/knowledge" easily available to me to convey the awfulness of massive economic chaos and what "starvation" actually means.
That doesn't mean that I don't BELIEVE that such awful conditions have existed and can in future exist, even for us "evolved and intelligent" present-day people,.. but the "emotion" of "experientially believing" such things is very difficult to personally experience without "Dad and Mom" emoting, as it were, their first person experience directly into one's head/heart.
And the words of wisdom are even less "potent" if they come from Gramps and Grammie.
So, Venezuela (could) seem to me to be shear unbelievable fantasy that I can safely disregard as happening only in a far off "unreal" place that has no relevance to me whatsoever.
That is what Venezuela is to those who disregard the now-non-living memory that their parents failed to pass down to them.
Apparently, there are "enough" of those people in Venezuela to have allowed Venezuela to become Venezuela at this time.
Perhaps, there was no "memory" at all in Venezuela of chaos and starvation? I doubt that, but perhaps it's true.
Why? The promise of "Free Stuff™" trumps non-living memory of atrocity.
The promise of socialism.